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Nairobi, November 10, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of John Ngirachu, the parliamentary editor of independent daily The Nation. Authorities arrested Ngirachu Tuesday evening and demanded that he reveal his sources for a report on alleged procurement irregularities by the interior ministry, journalists at TheNation and other Kenyan outlets told CPJ. TheNation said Ngirachu's report was based on proceedings at the national assembly.

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In December 2002, the
U.N. Tribunal charged with prosecuting war crimes in the former Yugoslavia
ruled that Washington Post reporter
Jonathan Randal could not be compelled to provide testimony in the case of a
Bosnian Serb official accused of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing."If war correspondents were to be
perceived as potential witnesses for the Prosecution," the Tribunal noted, they
"may shift from being observers of those committing human rights violations to
being their targets." As a result of that ruling, war correspondents enjoy some
immunity against compelled testimony at the international level. But this is
not necessarily the case in the United States.

Across Continent, Governments Criminalize
Investigative Reporting

By Mohamed Keita

Across the continent, the emergence of in-depth reporting and the absence of effective access-to-information laws have set a collision course in which public officials, intent on shielding their activities, are moving aggressively to unmask confidential sources, criminalize the possession of government documents, and retaliate against probing journalists. From Cameroon to Kenya, South Africa to Senegal, government reprisals have resulted in imprisonments, violence, threats, and legal harassment. At least two suspicious deaths--one involving an editor, the other a confidential source--have been reported in the midst of government reprisals against probing news coverage.

The newspaper Le Monde against the Elysée Palace, the office of the president of the French Republic: Two of France's main symbols of influence and power are facing each other in a judicial battle that promises to be a litmus test in the running battles between the press and Nicolas Sarkozy's so-called "imperial presidency."

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New York, September 16, 2010--The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights unanimously held that media premises are exempt from police searches, marking a major victory for press freedom across the continent on Tuesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. CPJ had joined in the amicus curiae.